The "Sugarbush Thread"

[thetrailboss]

Directed to our resident snowmaking experts.
It occurred to me that the water supply may be low so I checked the pond and river this morning. The pond looked down a bit, maybe 2-3'. The weir was inflated and some water was being directed to the pond but the river flow is very low, as was the flow into the sluiceway. On the sluice cover was a meter showing 91.4% with a green light on #1 and a red light on #5. Anyone know what this means?
From what I've read, the whole pond is only good for 3-4 days of snowmaking. How long would it take to open GH at full capacity?
I heard that in the not too distant future the VT ANR will actually require a hgher river flow (taller sluice) and that will further limit snowmaking in dry years.

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So who at Sugarbush gets to carry the "Football" for this operation?

 

[Lotso]

Big group o'skinners at GH now

 

[Plowboy]

I see Paula put in some training up on Ellen before heading North of the border for this weekend's races.

She has a video on FB

 

[Julius]

Big group o'skinners at GH now...

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[ducky]

Climb it for Climate

 

[SurfMoon]

First day out and the upper third of the mountain is skiing well- quite low tide on the natural terrain they've dropped ropes on, rocky and bony- got a nice edge core shot en route to heavens gate on downspout. Imagine they will close a decent amount of what they opened up with weekend traffic as it is very thin pre weekend crowds. The rock skied well top to bottom, got lucky checking the report on way up to HG, and got over there 30 mins after it opened. Good snow at elevation, but quite bony and wind scoured down low.